Emotions and stuttering: a case of chicken and egg.

Hi reader,
Today, it's going to be all about my own observations and experience as a recovering stutterer. Like I mentioned in an earlier post, I spend a huge amount of time trying to find a way to improve my speech impediment of stuttering. Among the many things I discovered, I want turn the spotlight on the issue of emotions and how it affects stuttering. I have heard and read it over and over again that most negative emotions such as fear and anxietyare experienced by stutterers as a result of the stuttering itself. In my opinion I believe this notion has been emphasized mostly by those who don't have a very deep understanding or a first hand experience of stuttering. The role of emotions in the dynamics of stuttering is synonymous to the riddle of the chicken and egg where the question is: which came first? Or to put it in another way, which one leads to the other?
At some point in the past, I have looked into the crucial role an organ called the amygdala plays in human emotions and ultimately, in human speech. To put it simply, amygdala plays a role in the modulation of human emotions, for example those of fear and anxiety. It is also an important player in the fight-or-flight dilemma experienced by humans when faced with a threat or the thought thereof. Now, from personal experience, I know a major contributor to my stuttering events is the presence of a negative emotion such as fear and anxiety.  It could be fear of being judged or anxiety over performance - it doesn't help that I'm a perfectionist!  It is my belief that these emotions trigger the fight-or-flight mechanism which puts a counter-productive stress on the already susceptible and precarious speech system of the stutterer. The fight-or-flight reaction then triggers a tension that tightens muscles in the body including the muscles of speech. But note that some of these happen outside of the consciousness of the person and he cannot just explain what is happening to him at that moment. The subconscious tightening of the speech muscles is what worsens the stuttering. This is not to attribute the entire stuttering event on the natural defense mechanism of fight-or-flight as it has been verified that there are actually some abnormalities in the structure and function of stutterer's speech system, but my point is we can make things easier for ourselves by eliminating the feeling of fear and anxiety before speaking.  Eventhough we cannot restructure our faulty speech makeup, we can voluntarily and deliberately and surely break the vicious cycle of negative emotion-stutterin-negative emotion.
I would like to read your opinion about this my dear reader. Please leave a comment. Love you all.